Dave Winer's Twitter posts for 8/11/2009

Align the interests of: 1. Users and 2. Investors. (Scripting News). http://tr.im/we4T
@SaveTheNews -- the same idea would work for news.
Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? Must-read. http://tr.im/weyM
"we, the users, need to own a technology company -- and have it work to serve our interests..." http://tr.im/we4T
5/29/09: Discussions in Twitter. http://tr.im/mOkH
An example of a discussion started from a Twitter post. http://twdsc.us/120.html
I don't see why Twitter is responsible for backing up our data. They have an API. Why are users so helpless? http://tr.im/wf0B
For example, I've been backing up @sheamus since July when I started following him. http://tr.im/wf0R
Also why is http://tr.im/ so helpless? Okay Twitter bundled bit.ly. So let's compete with Twitter. Let's all work together? Why not??
I know that Twitter is no friend to me. All the signs are there. I'm glad they let me use Twitter, but I'll compete first chance I get.
@dltq -- sure I made a tool that backs up your tweets. You just need to run it.
@doranb -- I believe they're doing the best they can to keep their service up. Not just saying that. I believe it.
@ccheath http://editor.opml.org/twitterCalendarTool.html
@dai_vernon -- of course!
@dai_vernon -- wait a minute -- i missed the bit about "nuke rssCloud" -- maybe you'd better do a blog post about this.
Too many pundits. If you want to back up your data, then back it up and stop making excuses. You'll be sorry when you lose it.
@stuandgravy -- whatever works for you! :-)
The Top-40 app, which depends on the tr.im API, is working again. Happy! :-) http://dave.40twits.com/
BTW, would someone tell the tr.im guys that bit.ly doesn't do this. So if we want to be competitive, let's go. http://dave.40twits.com/
@mcsquareme -- HR == number of hours, CT == number of clicks